Posted on 10/23/2015 8:31:54 AM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
Typhoid is not Ebola. Typhoid carriers (like Typhoid Mary) can transmit the disease without ever showing symptoms. Not so with Ebola.
What?! Chris Christie is running for President?! The dickens you say!!!
The Maine governor imposed a “voluntary quarantine,” and failed when trying to make it mandatory, because he lacked justification for a mandatory quarantine.
MeganC, the Bill of Rights does not guarantee any suppositious right to violate quarantine. It is also a state matter, not a federal matter.
CoaC, there were no political points to score here. It was just common sense.
l90, she can call herself whatever she wants, but she spent a month in a hospital in Sierra Leone during an Ebola outbreak. She could easily have been exposed.
She had one job: to stay home for 21 days (the incubation period plus test result waiting period if she was exposed) and then get tested after that period to show no exposure.
But she felt her desire to go shopping and biking was more important than making sure that she wasn't exposing others to a deadly disease.
She's an obnoxious leftist who doesn't care about actual Constitutional rights, and she's looking for free money from NJ taxpayers and ME taxpayers.
Pretty much.
Scientifically-based quarantines that are relevant tot he transmissibility of a dangerous disease are necessary and important.
Quarantines (like this one) that go against the science, and are used instead to score political points based on fear, are unnecessary and counterproductive.
Common Sense (Reason) rules in “Just Law”. There was good reason to quarantine her-—the case dismissed.
You can never eliminate Common Sense from a Justice System without creating chaos. Of course, all Leftists want chaos and have to destroy the legal system first to get it.
It is WHY we have to get back to true Justice and put SCOTUS members in prison for Treason and throwing our our “Justice (virtue) System” intentionally with many “unJust Laws”——which are oxymoronic and unconstitutional. Read my tagline. All Just Law HAS to promote virtue and be RATIONAL.
True.
But Ebola isn’t a laughing matter.
It did seem like our government was trying very very hard to create an outbreak here.
Christie refused to let her go home. Christie quarantined her immediately upon her arrival in the airport, and had her in a tent outside a hospital in Newark.
The home-based voluntary quarantine (which yes, she should have upheld - the bike ride was at the very least a tone-deaf gesture) was the compromise to END Christie's quarantine.
She got a friendly judge to rule on her side.
However, as you can see, Christie was not alone.
And in 1918 during the Great Influenza.
Quarantines work if they are used.
Reasonable guidelines (which she never objected to, by the way).
Ebola wasn’t dangerous. Gotchya. LOL
Of course she did by refusing to take blood tests.
The science is settled then...since the syptoms initally are flu-like (and the WHO screening symptom is simply a temperature above 99 degrees) we should always assume that it is the flu even though the patient spent months in an environment surrounded by ebola patients.
Andrew Cuomo and Pat Quinn say hello
We don’t know that.
Recently, it has been transmitted by recovered people via sex. A nurse who was “cured” is now in the ICU with it in critical condition. There is very little data on how it is transmitted, and some cases suggest it can be carried and passed with few symptoms.
Ebola is not some little sniffle.
Didn’t she break quarantine to go get a bowl of soup?
OK then, lets roll the dice even though the symptoms and nature of the disease in a dormant not evident state, is the exchange of fluids by sneezing viable to the recipient who may become infected?
Ever give blood??
I have, over 3 gallons...
O+, they call me
When you donate they ask have you been to XXX...
If yes, they say thanks but no thanks...
Uh Oh, lawsuit!!!
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